The 20 players Arsenal are buying this summer and the 12 who are going

by Sir Hardly Anyone

Here are all the transfers so far as we seek to get 120 tales of departure by the end of the window. There are of course some amusing tales – Gareth Bale for example – and some like Fernandes (being priced at £100m) who might be a little beyond our budget.

Meanwhile 12 players are said to be leaving.

Now in case this all looks a bit odd to you, I should add that we have in recent years had the entire first team squad predicted as going, plus over 100 players tipped to be arising. And the winsome window isn’t even open yet. So this is early days.

No

Player

Current club

Source

Notes

NEW

Toby Alderweireld

Tottenham H

TBR Football, Sun

He’s 30 years old

2

Gareth Bale

Real Madrid

She wore a yellow

87% of RM fans want him out

3

Ismael Bennacer

Empoli

HITC, Pain in the Arsenal

Ex Arsenal youth player

4

Marcelo Brozociv

Inter Milan

Transfer Tavern citing CalcioMercato

£40.5m; a “tough midfielder”

5

Samuel Chukwueze

Villareal

Foot Lond

Nigerian forward

NEW

Bruno Fernandes

Sporting

O Jogo, Sport Witness

Chelsea, Man C, Juventus want him, £100m release clause

7

Ryan Fraser

Bournemouth

Express, Mirror

One year left on contract

8

Jean Philippee Gbamain

Mainz

Read Arsenal

On his way

9

Ander Herrera

Man U

Express

PSG also interested

NEW

Gabrielle Martinelli

Ituano

Metro according to reports in Brazil, also Express

17 year old winger, equivalent of Son Heung-min FootLond

11

Paul Mitchell

Leipzig

Sports Mole; 90 min, Football 365, Sky; Talksport

Man U and Chelsea interested

12

N’Zonzi

Roma (midfield)

HITC

£19m; he’s considerred a flot at Roma

13

David Neres

Everton

Telegraph, Foot Lond

£34.5m; talks held. Liverpool want him

14

Christopher Nkunku

PSG

Foot Lond, Le Parisien

Midfield; he’s turned down a contract renewal

15

Nicolas Pepe

Lille

101 Great Goals, Telefoot

Star striker. Man U also interested.

NEW

Ivan Perisic

Inter Milan

Spursweb, Gazzetta dello sport

Tots and WHU interested

NEW

Dennis Praet

Sampdoria

Corriere dello Sport , Sport Witness

Midfielder or winger

NEW

Benito Raman

Fortna Dusseldorf

Express

WHU, Burnley, Everton interested

NEW

Jordon Veretout

Fiorentina

Metro

25m euros for Ramsey II

NEW

Wesley

Club Brugges

Sun, Calciomercato, Daily Cannon, LaLazio

Forward, 22 years old

Leaving Arsenal this summer…

Everyone is off: “Stars may exit if Arsenal fail to make the Champions League this summer” says the Guardian but really I think that is cheating.

No

Player

Going to

Source

Notes

1

Aubameyang

Real Madrid

FootLond

FL cite Calciomercato

Update

Chambers

???

FoodLond

Off to Tottenham (HITC) no Everton (TBR)

NEW

Elneny

Roma

Daily Cannon

NEW

Jenkinson

FootLond

“He’s up for sale”

NEW

Kolasinac

FootLond

NEW

Mkhitaryan

Star, Mail

Star blames the Mail for the story.

NEW

Mustafi

Roma

Daily Cannon,

“He’s up for sale” Express

NEW

Ospina

FootLond

“He’s up for sale” HITC says player himself says he wants to go.

NEW

Ozil

FootLond

“He’s up for sale”

NEW

Smith Rowe

Leipzig

Foot Lond

“He’s staying” exclusive from FL, but others say he’s off.

11

Welbeck

Daily Cannon

Injured and out of contract

12

Xhaka

Inter Milan

Sund Express, BT Sport

Player says he wants to move. Inter wants him

Moving Up

Bukayo Saka and Arthur Okonkwo ahead of the Premier League clash against Wolverhampton Wanderers according to AllNigeriaSoccer.

5 comments to The 20 players Arsenal are buying this summer and the 12 who are going

During the coming summer window, The players who will come in to Arsenal will come in and the ones who will go out from the club will go out. So, therefore let’s not bother ourselves over Arsenal summer transfer rumours as they are being published in the media, For, the print media is there doing it’s work churning out the transfer rumours but mostly without truths in them. Nevertheless, us Gooners can read these Arsenal summer transfer rumours if us want to read them but leave them as they are not getting ourselves worked up over the rumours as us know that only 1 or 2 out of 100 or more of any Arsenal transfer rumours in a window will not come to fruition.

Anyway, I don’t even think Arsenal are in the transfer mode at this time in the run-in to the season’s campaign. But rather, I believe the club’s coaching personnel are more concerned on how the Gunners will return to the winning ways to win their remaining 2 matches of the season in the PL as a top four place finish this season is not yet dead for Arsenal to grab it as another twists and turns in the PL could still happen in the last 2 matches of the season that could see Arsenal grab on of the prestigious 4 PL Ucl spots for next season on the final day of the season. While in the run-in in the Europa League Cup semi-final matches also, I believe Arsenal are working hard day and night more than ever to beat Valencia convincingly in the 1st leg of the 2 legged semi-final match on Thursday night this week at the Ems.

In this Arsenal Europa League Cup match at home against Valencia. It has looked to me some Gunners in the forward line were leggy and suffering from fatigue in Arsenal PL last away match to Leicester. Therefore, would Unai Emery wants to consider taking a big gamble in the match that could yield high dividend for Arsenal by starting Joe Willock, Bukola Saka and Eddie Nkethia at the same time in the Valencia match?

During the coming summer window, The players who will come in to Arsenal will come in and the ones who will go out from the club will go out. So, therefore let’s not bother ourselves over Arsenal summer transfer rumours as they are being published in the media, For, the print media is there doing it’s work churning out the transfer rumours but mostly without truths in them. Nevertheless, us Gooners can read these Arsenal summer transfer rumours if us want to read them but leave them as they are not getting ourselves worked up over the rumours as us know that only 1 or 2 out of 100 or more of any Arsenal transfer rumours in a window may come to fruition.

Anyway, I don’t even think Arsenal are in the transfer mode at this time in the run-in to the season’s campaign. But rather, I believe the club’s coaching personnel are more concerned on how the Gunners will return to the winning ways to win their remaining 2 matches of the season in the PL as a top four place finish this season is not yet dead for Arsenal to grab it as another twists and turns in the PL could still happen in the last 2 matches of the season that could see Arsenal grab one of the prestigious 4 PL Ucl spots for next season on the final day of the season in the PL. While in the run-in in the Europa League Cup semi-final matches also, I believe Arsenal are working hard day and night more than ever to beat Valencia convincingly in the 1st leg of the 2 legged semi-final match on Thursday night this week at the Ems.

In this Arsenal Europa League Cup match at home against Valencia. It has looked to me some Gunners in the forward line were leggy and likely suffering from fatigue in Arsenal last away match to Leicester in the PL. Therefore, would Unai Emery wants to consider taking a big gamble in the match that could yield high dividend for Arsenal by starting Joe Willock, Bukola Saka and Eddie Nkethia at the same time in the Valencia match?

What I find disturbing is that we have no real youth player making it up to the first team this season. Last season our U23 won the title but we didn’t see anyone making it to the first team of them. I know Nelson and Smith-Rowe are on loan but I thought Nelson should have gotten his chance at Arsenal this season. We sure could have used a 7-8 goal scoring winger who can use pace and trickery to get past opponents.
And from our current crop of talent we also don’t see anyone giving much play time. Nketiah can come on when the match is lost and show some good things.
I fear our current coach isn’t as willing to take risks with our own youth players as the one before him.

Tottenham Hotspur playing at home tonight in the UCL semi-final 1st leg match against Ajax of Amsterdam but not having their world class striker and prolific goals scorer in Harry Kane due to injury and Son Heung-min due to 1 match ban are a goal down in the match to Ajax. But despite these duo forwards absent for Tottenham in the match, I am expecting Spurs to find a way in the match to hit Ajax back with an equalising goal and go ahead to win the match.

To my surprise, Tottenham Hotspur who I think will comeback in the game to cancel out the 1 goal deficit suffered to them by Ajax in the 1st half and go ahead to win the match did not equalise talk-less of them to go ahead to win the match. Hmmm.